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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Conferences
more comparative studies


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging
experimental reconstruction


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
Crafts
experimental archaeology

comparing excavated sites



Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection